34 Responses to “Ip to Geolocation”

1. #  Paul Hastings January 24, 2009 9:45 PM

   it got the country & city right.
   
   which one are you using?  

2. #  Ted Patrick January 24, 2009 10:17 PM

   Paul,
   
   It is using Maxmind GeoLite City found here:
   
   http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity
   
   It is pretty nice that you can swap this out with the more accurate commercial version.
   
   Ted :)  

3. #  Marc January 24, 2009 10:51 PM

   One town off, but really close considering the size of my town.  

4. #  oneandonly January 24, 2009 11:26 PM

   accurate upto the city level..
   cool to know, that it's free..  

5. #  Anonymous January 24, 2009 11:58 PM

   Mine was spot on, and I live in a little area just outside of Pittsburgh, you know, Steelers Country (sorry, I felt compelled to do that for some reason...maybe because it's 3 am)  

6. #  jdk January 25, 2009 1:22 AM

   Missed the last digit (of 5) of the zip code by 4.  

7. #  Anonymous January 25, 2009 2:47 AM

   The country was right but the city was wrong.
   I send my request from a city 60 km (40 mi) away from the shown city.  

8. #  Fréderic Cox January 25, 2009 3:03 AM

   Hi Ted,
   
   The country is right but the city is not that accurate. It says Lummen and that's about 20 kilometres outside of where I am. But pretty cool still :)
   
   I'm in a little country called Belgium :D maybe that is the reason  

9. #  Savvas Malamas January 25, 2009 3:44 AM

   I get the right city-country too, nice!  

10. #  Erki Esken January 25, 2009 4:21 AM

    Pretty good, only about 1.5 km off from real location.  

11. #  nickdean January 25, 2009 6:18 AM

    24.128.62.242
    US
    USA
    United States
    MA
    Quincy
    
    42.2654
    -71.0185
    617
    506
    America/New_York
    ===============================
    I live one town over, In East Milton, Ma.  

12. #  mazharhasan January 25, 2009 6:22 AM

    Wow its working fine for me too :) got the right location:
    
    115.186.xxx.xxx PK PAK Pakistan 05 Karachi 24.8667 67.05 Asia/Karachi  

13. #  elvezpablo January 25, 2009 6:40 AM

    Worked for me down to the city. Good stuff!  

14. #  Josh January 25, 2009 9:25 AM

    Got the city and state right, the zip code was a little off, but probably accurate for my cable provider. We've used GeoLite and it works well.  

15. #  Adam Gray January 25, 2009 10:56 AM

    Accurate down to the zip code. Pretty good.  

16. #  doug January 25, 2009 1:02 PM

    Hi Ted,
    
    I've been using the MaxMind web service for a couple of years now over at my site http://www.strangeloopstudios.com/player/ - Never had a problem and the results are usually pretty acurate in most cases.
    
    If you test it now you'll get an error with the GEOIP as they've recently changed servers but that's being sorted at the mo.
    
    I think i purchased 50,000 requests for £20 - so not bad and they're always able to be contacted. It's typical that my first and only issue has recently occured... I run my request via amfphp so to check it just look at the first result from player_gateway if you're using a proxy.
    
    Doug  

17. #  Marc Baiges January 26, 2009 12:35 AM

    ouch, 500km error for me!
    checking from Barcelona (Spain), but pointed me in Madrid (Spain).  

18. #  corl3an January 26, 2009 7:17 AM

    worked for me. off on the zip but right on for the rest! cheers!  

19. #  2bsravan January 26, 2009 8:02 AM

    Right down to the city. Pretty good.  

20. #  Paul Hastings January 26, 2009 3:37 PM

    i would be amiss if i didn't mention http://javainetlocator.sourceforge.net/ we use it for country/locale guessing. it's blazing fast (several people have tried to use the sql versions of maxmind, etc but these seem to be slower compared to the binary versions) but gets out of date.  

21. #  DavidW January 26, 2009 7:53 PM

    Right city, state and coordinates. Wrong state ;-(  

22. #  Jason January 27, 2009 4:10 AM

    I blogged about this including a Flex/Google Maps API mashup over here if anyone's interested - http://blog.wrench.com.au/2008/12/13/google-maps-geo-location-by-ip-flex-example/  

23. #  Anonymous January 27, 2009 6:17 AM

    Wrong country (and obviously wrong city hehe).
    
    So I guess not good enough service..  

24. #  KiteBoy January 27, 2009 8:12 AM

    Not very accurate I am afraid. I am in Edinburgh in Scotland and it thought I was in Hartlepool in England. But at least the continent was right ;-)  

25. #  dbmuse January 27, 2009 7:22 PM

    only 6 miles off by air..
    the city name is wrong
    i'm in Ada Mi not Grand Rapids.
    Pretty good considering its source data.
    Someday all computers will be required to have GPS just like cell phones... i predict.  

26. #  Evan Gifford January 29, 2009 7:31 AM

    Off by about 3 miles. That's funny, according to this method we live in the same house in SoCal!  

27. #  mYxuS January 31, 2009 12:44 AM

    correct. Moscow is a big city, its hard to miss the mark -)  

28. #  leif January 31, 2009 7:34 AM

    Dead-on. Seems to work well for me.  

29. #  Ben January 31, 2009 10:36 AM

    City, state and zip correct for a Minneapolis resident  

30. #  Jens Wegar January 31, 2009 12:17 PM

    One city off for me. But if it's tracking my ISP, then it was correct (because my ISP has their server in the city that was found)  

31. #  Ted Patrick January 31, 2009 1:48 PM

    The GEO-IP is tied to the location of your ISP, not where you are exactly. In some cases this is close, others not so much.
    
    I tested with the Adobe VPN system and the IP changes depending on if you are logged in tracking back to the data center you are VPN'd into.
    
    Ted :)  

32. #  Anonymous February 1, 2009 10:59 AM

    Got my country right (NZ) but the city is way off. Said I'm in Dunedin, but shoud be Wellington.
    Cheers.  

33. #  Fabien February 1, 2009 12:08 PM

    Here is an example of how to use the MaxMing GeoLite API with PHP (installation and stuff). And a small tutorial to display the information on a Yahoo! Map (french):
    Flex / Yahoo Maps API - Géo-localisation par IP d'un visiteur (Exemple)
     

34. #  romantique February 26, 2009 9:08 AM

    Regards from Novosibirsk :)